Phylotranscriptomic analysis of the origin and early diversification of land plants.

ABSTRACT: Reconstructing the origin and evolution of land plants and their algal relatives is a fundamental problem in plant phylogenetics, and is essential for understanding how critical adaptations arose, including the embryo, vascular tissue, seeds, and flowers. Despite advances in molecular systematics, some hypotheses of relationships remain weakly resolved. Inferring deep phylogenies with bouts of rapid diversification can be problematic; however, genome-scale data should significantly increase the number of informative characters for analyses. Recent phylogenomic reconstructions focused on the major divergences of plants have resulted in promising but inconsistent results. One limitation is sparse taxon sampling, likely resulting from the difficulty and cost of data generation. To address thi

SUBMITTER: Wickett NJ 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC4234587 | biostudies-literature | 2014 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature